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So what do you propose? You buy windows xp and you deserve free maintenance updates while windows 55 is out?

Me when I demand corporations pay people fairly for their work 🤬 Me when I demand free labour in 2045 because I paid 100€ in 2015 😗

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Do you understand what software as a service is?

Not wanting software as a service is also not proposing anything like your strawman.

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Honestly, please explain.

I know SaaS, but I don’t see how that is relevant to Windows 10 and its maintenance. The OS works without requiring an Internet connection, so it’s not relying on cloud computing for much of its functionality.

Ending support for an OS is also totally normal, many FOSS OSes do it too. Whether you paid for it initially or not honestly makes little difference, at the end of the day someone else has to expend their own time to fix something for you - some might do so for free, while others want to be paid.

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It’s relevant to Win11. Win11 is supposed to be going SaaS. So if you want to stay on Windows but don’t want your OS to be SaaS…

Edit:

Having said that, it looks like this may not be as much of a lock as I thought. So maybe I’m talking out of my butt.

I’m simultaneously embarrassed by that if so, but also kinda happy that my days of running Windows are so far behind me that I’ve stopped subconsciously paying attention to MS news enough to be wrong about something like that.

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Not wanting software as a service while asking for updates longer than 10 years 🤭

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Oh it’s you. Hadn’t noticed or wouldn’t have replied. In that case though, your argument is with the petition, not with the person you replied to. Win11 is to go SaaS so resisting that upgrade makes complete sense.

Anyhow, goodbye now!

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Not relevant

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Yes updates longer than 10 years without treating os as service and refusing paying is not relevant

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